Would You Pay £2.50 For Cauliflower 'Steak'?

*EDITED TO ADD* Marks and Spencer has now ditched its cauliflower steak, according to BBC News:Marks and Spencer says it will stop selling its "cauliflower steak" after shoppers mocked the product. An M&S spokeswoman said: "We work hard to create quick and convenient meals for customers; however on this occasion we didn't get it right."

Have you seen the 'cauliflower steak' you can now buy at Marks and Spencer?

The 'steak' which is just a sliced cauliflower is double the usual price of the vegetable. The product is sold as part of the store's vegetarian range and comes with a sachet of lemon and herb drizzle for £2.

The questionable cauli hit the headlines after a shopper took to Twitter to voice her dismay at finding the overpriced veggie in her local branch of M&S, writing:

‘Marks and Spencer stores are selling sliced cauliflower as ‘Cauliflower Steak’ with lots of lovely plastic and charging £2 (normally £2.50). A cauliflower costs about 69p from a local veg shop.’

I had to laugh at this. I've found myself paying over the odds for 'cauliflower rice' from my local supermarket before now but at a quid for a bag, I can almost justify it on account of the fact that it's no more expensive than the store's whole cauliflower. But I'd draw the line at this, not least because there is no way on earth that calling it steak is going to make a cauliflower more appetising.

But this trend for repackaging food and trying to palm it off on shoppers as a thing is getting silly now, isn't it? My parents have their own in-joke about this – they never order anything served with a 'jus' in a restaurant because they resent the thought of shelling out extra for what's essentially just exotically-named gravy.

What about you? Do you get irked by supermarkets charging over the odds for over-processed and over-packaged food like this?

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22 comments

Jayne G.

No I wouldn’t you can pick a cauliflower up cheap enough and make your own!!!!

Hahahaha Stephen told me about this! I was fuming and thought Criticise the idiots who buy it not marks and spencer!! I'd slap em across the chops with a real steak! And for the record I dont like cauli! ! X

Ok, so, it may be that you have to purchase pre cut veg due to problems with mobility in hands etc. Or any other reason - but seriously £1.50 over the average price for not even a whole cauliflower- if your gonna do this at least charge a realistic price which would be more I guess in the range of 70p allowing for cutting and pre packing and for that price I would expect the slice to from a extra large cauliflower

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